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Turf Day
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs A resident named Honey Wendt visited the Dell island today to make an environmental protest and got threatened with the virtual boot by Boliver Oddfellow, CEO of Infinite Vision Media. She challenged Dell’s concept of how to help the environment in RL and began saucily debating Oddfellow, whose [...]
Full StoryNew Logo for SL? Or New Business Model?
By Prokofy Neva, KremlindenologistIf you look closely at the new SL Brasil web page that will launch the Brazilian community in Second Life with official Linden support tomorrow, you’ll see an interesting new logo: “Second Life Grid”. It’s a logo separate from the Kaizen Games: SL Global Provider” to the left of it, and appears [...]
Full StoryJesse Malthus 4/21/06-4/19/07
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs In a week of horror and sad cruelty with the massacre at Virginia Tech, comes a separate piece of sad news of a young man cut down at his most promising. The typist of the avatar Jesse Malthus, a 17-year-old Kentucky youth named Jesse Higginbotham, was killed in [...]
Full StoryYou Rule: Second Life Turns Into Tropico
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Multiverses, Metaverses, Abusive Synthetic Island Nations, and The Tiny Crypto-Governance Department at LL That Rules Us All Anyway Oh, dear God. As if there weren’t enough problems in Second Life, what with the lag, the teleporters not working, inventory lost for good, now the Lindens have gone and announced [...]
Full StoryA FIC and Facile Guide to Second Life
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs Available at amazon.com While we wearily wait for Uri’s and Walker’s book to come out (when, Uri, oh, when?!), and while we save up $22.04 US for the expenso Hamlet’s et. al Official Guide to Second Life, we now have the Unofficial Tourists’ Guide to Second Life by [...]
Full StoryLifestyles of the SL Rich and Famous
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs I was so proud of our very own Second Life rich and famous appearing in the article published today in Business Week, Big Spenders of Second Life. Every single person on the list deserves to be on there for their hard work and long hours in the risky business of [...]
Full StoryRIP Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Second Life avatars gathered again tonight at the Velvet club in Iron Fist to leave flowers, candles, cigs, and drinks in memory of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, a beloved internationally-known American author who died April 11 at the age of 84 of brain injury suffered after a fall. Somehow a [...]
Full StoryTouching the Sky
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universe, Multiverses, Metaverses (Yes, There’s More Than One) and Deep Negative Hyperspace OK, so I’m clearing away prims in Neumoegen and suddenly I see Michael and Nigel Linden have a new train, a dark-red, old-fashioned beat-up one that I guess fits in with the hobo build in Calletta [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Removes User Content
Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs In an unprecedented move for a company that prides itself on promoting user creativity and user content, Linden Lab announced today that they will be removing user content — the ratings section on the avatars. When the Lindens GOM’d the GOM, they removed the rationale for an independent currency market, but [...]
Full StoryToday in Second Life, Thursday April 12, 2007
By Prokofy Neva, Meaningless Numbers Cruncher and Irrelevant Facts Driller Today in Second Life: o if you add up all the numbers of today’s date, you get the number 7, which is the number of holes in the human heado Some Linden must be getting a pay-off as there are $26,000 in SINKS for April [...]
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